Blair Paddock

Host Brandis Friedman and audience members put questions to a Chicago Police Department official, leaders of local anti-violence nonprofits and community-police organizations to try and assess the current state of community and police relationships.

Albums recorded in Midwest jails and prisons that will be spun at the gallery Walls Turned Sideways on June 12. After the live listening event, a group discussion will allow audience members to debrief the music.

Cook County has been called the wrongful conviction capital of the country.

The Bears are still in talks to make an Illinois stadium deal. And the Supreme Court expands the Trump administration’s power over immigration enforcement.

This bill would expand on prior laws and court rulings that have increasingly required judges to take defendants’ youth into account.

Logan Correctional Center, the largest women’s prison in Illinois, will be rebuilt with an 800-bed capacity about 140 miles north of its current location. As of this spring, Logan housed around 1,200 women and employed more than 400 people.

Three men filed a lawsuit Monday against administrators at the Illinois Department of Corrections and Menard Correctional Center, alleging that they inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on the plaintiffs.

A recent report from the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice says Cook County judges often ordered accused people to be detained while awaiting trial despite, by the court’s own assessments, being at low risk of rearrest or missing court.

The men declared the strike from their restrictive housing, or solitary confinement, cells on Monday, alleging a lack of mental health treatment and out-of-cell time at the prison in the southeast region of the state.

Howard “Ken” Ellis moved out of Menard Correctional Center’s restrictive housing unit in mid-August after a six month stint. While he was under restrictive